All we need to do to make this garbage burning more earth friendly is a way to capture the byproducts of burning and use them for something else. Burnt stuff becomes carbon. There are LOTS of uses for carbon. I have some in my Britta Water Filter.

I was really excited about this until reading that they're simply burning all that trash. No I guess i'd like to know more as to whether or not that's better or worse than burning other kinds of stuff for energy. I guess if its no worse than burning, say coal, then we might as well.... less stuff to bury in the ground.

"Sweden has had strict standards limiting emissions from
waste incineration since the mid-1980s. Most emissions
have fallen by between 90 and 99 per cent since then
thanks to ongoing technical development and better
waste sorting."